Membership of current employer's pension scheme by sex and whether working full-time or part-time: Great Britain, 2002
Since 1989 trends in participation in employer pension schemes have differed for both men and women, and for those working part-time and full-tme.
The proportion of men working full time who were members of their current employer’s occupational pension scheme decreased from 64 per cent in 1989 to 55 per cent in 2002. To an extent this reflects changes in the proportion of employees offered a pension scheme by their employer.
The percentage of women working full time who were members of an occupational pension scheme showed the opposite pattern, rising from 55 per cent in 1989 to 60 per cent in 2002.
Among women working part time, however, the proportion who were members of an occupational pension scheme has more than doubled from 15 per cent in 1989 to 33 per cent in 2002. This is partly due to a rise in the proportion of employers providing such a scheme.
Among the self-employed, between 1991 and 1998 the take-up of personal pension schemes by men working full time stayed fairly stable at around two thirds. In more recent years the proportion has dropped from 64 per cent in 1998 to 52 per cent in 2002.
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